Chapter 14 Stay

• "Then be afraid," Thalia said, "but stop trying to outrun it alone. Let me stand here with you instead of watching you fight this war by yourself in the shadows. That's what an anchor is, isn't it? Not someone who prevents the storm. Someone who keeps you steady inside it."
• Something shifted in him then, deep and fundamental, a recognition settling into his bones that no amount of careful planning had ever managed to provide.
• The endless, grinding need to control every variable, every threat, every possible future, began to quiet for the first time since he'd torn open that first desperate rift in time.